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How Secure Is Digital Hospital?. The paperless, wireless, all-digital hospital to be built in Alabama is designed to streamline healthcare and finally bring the medical industry into the technology age. But those nagging security issues raise concerns. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Starting Your Own Business. Eleven maxims for successful self-employment from a Fool who's been there. [The Motley Fool]

Salon: Microsoft storm warning. Scott Rosenberg. HailStorm purports to give us more control. But there is no escaping the simple fact that Microsoft is asking us all to move our data from its current home on our desktops into a paid service on a server inside a Microsoft data center — Bill Gates' Control Room.… Continue reading Microsoft storm warning

Took my cat Hallie to the vet this morning. She was as charming as ever.

Library Card Catalog, R.I.P.. Sonoma State University rolls out an automated retrieval system at the library that's making books easier to find. But the utterly random nature of the operation — in complete opposition to the Dewey Decimal System — has some librarians unnerved. Katie Dean reports from Rohnert Park, California. [Wired News]

NEWS: SoapWiz 1.0 for JBuilder. Posted: 3/27/01 by Stephen Schaub – SoapWiz is a set of wizards that helps developers create Soap services and clients using Java. It works with JBuilder 4 for Windows (and Linux, using the Sun JDK), and is based on IdooXoap Soap Toolkit 1.1.1. Tutorials and user manual included. [Meerkat: An… Continue reading NEWS: SoapWiz 1.0 for JBuilder

More Than Just Jabber (an inverview with Jeremie Miller). Although Jabber was designed as an instant messaging system, its XML architecture enables it to do a whole lot more. [JabberCentral]

WebKNotes 0.9.31 (Default). Web-based knowledge notes database written in Perl. [freshmeat.net]

“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating — a book, a film, a painting, a piece of dance, a piece of music — anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us. I think this world would be unlivable without art.” Steven Soderbergh's Oscar acceptance speech

David Winer: “I read the tea leaves wrong. I thought Microsoft was embracing free movement of information when they got involved in SOAP. 'We're open,' they say. 'Yes, in a way,' I say. 'But not in the way that matters.'” [Scripting News]